Ticket or transfer-coupon issuing apparatus



R. H. HELSEL.

TICKET 0R TRANSFER COUPON ISSUTNG APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEc.1o.1919.

1,436,764; .Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

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TICKET oR TRANSFER couPoN TssuTNR APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. I0. 1919. 194361,76@ n' Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

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TICKET 0R TRANSFER COUPON ISSUING APPARATUS.

APPLTCATTON FILED DEC. 10. 1919.

1.436,764. Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10. 1919.

Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

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` Reuben HHQIJSSI l 'REUBEN H. HELsEL, or LONG IsLAND CITY, NEW YoRK, AssIGNoR, BY MEsNE AssIsN- MENTS, To AUTOMATIC TICKET REGISTER CORPORATION, or NEW YORK, N. Y., A

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TICKET R TRANSFER-COUPON ISSUING APPARATUS.

Application led December 10, 1919. Serial No. 343,864. l

T or all w wm t may concem Be it known that I, REU-BEN H. HELSEI., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Long Island City, Queens County, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ticket or TransferyCoupon Issuing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ticket or transfer coupon issuing apparatus and has particular reference to a device designed for utility in connection with street railways, wherein' the operators of cars are required to issue a series of successive tickets or transfers on lines of railways operating under the zone system.

The object of the invention is to providea suitable receptacle, containing a master carton or envelopednumber of tickets or transf-I fers arranged to be fed through suitable mechanism for issuing tickets or transfers in a given zone, having associated therewith means for indicating on the face of said tickets or transfers zone identifications together with means for registering the total number of transfers issued.J

Heretofore the practice has been for the conductor on' street railway cars to issue i .transfers at the time of the payment of fares,

and his only record would be the Coupon stub, which might become mutilated or lost, the result being no record of issued transfers, then-againthe practice has changed materially since railways are charging extra fares for the issuance of transfers and this function can only be guarded by coupon stub record or the honesty of an employee.

The structure, embodying my invention as hereinafter described obviates such faults and providesmeans for not only facilitating the issuance of transfers but meets the present day demands of (pay as you enter) car type of street vehicle, and rear door entrance and front door exit type of car, since it provides means whereby the motorman of the vehicle can correctly issue the tickets or transfers. By the use of my improved ma- 'chine it is possible to issue a ticket or trans? fer that designates the zones in which said tickets or transfers are issued or to record the number of passengers to whom transfers or tickets have been issued, the exact number of eXtra fares collected, the respective lines on which transfers were used, and a complete record of transfers issued within a series.of

fare zones through which the respective lines travel.

In addition to the above, vthe inventionv consists in a structure by means of which the actuation of the total register is accomand not otherwise. That is to say, the ticket or ticket strip must be in position to be operated upon in order toV insure the operation of the mechanism which records the total number of tickets issued.

The construction and operation of the -machine will be apparent fromv the following specification when vread in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. l is a vertical sectional view of the apparatus. `ig. 2 is an enlarged detail face elevation of the actuating mechanism, part of the casing therefor being broken away to more clearly illustrate the structure.

Fig. 2a, is a detail showing the action4 of the feeding mechanism.

.plished only when the machine is loaded Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation of the ac- I tuating mechanism showingl the reverse face of saine, and illustrating particularly the v lthe line 7-7 of Fig.`6 of one of the zone indicating dies illustrating the meanslfor perforating the transfers to designate the num- A berof the zone in which same is, issued.

Fig. 8 is a cross sectional view on the line 8-8 offFig. 6 illustrating the numerical zone indication dial. v

Fig. 9 is a vertical sectional view on the staggered line 9-9 of Fig., 3 of the transfer lfeeding mechanism. The same Vreference numerals indicate the same Iparts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, l indicates a casing comprising a lower compartment 2,and aseparated casement 3, the compartment 2 being arranged to receive the master enveloped carton lof transfers 4, the ribbon end 5 thereof being threaded into the actuating mechanism mounted in said casement 3. A crank arm 6 mounted on a shaft 7, on the outside of a vertically extending link 16 which transmits motion to a link 60 for operating the zone indicator means. The lever 14 is held in engagement with the cam 11 by a spring 17 fastened to eyes 18 situated respectively on said lever 14 and'on one of the walls of the casement 3. l

rfhe ribbon 5 of transfers is threaded over a fixed guide drum 19 and held in position by means of a shoe 20 between whichl said ribbon passes to a similar but horizontally disposed guide or plate21 at which location the 'ticket ribbon is held for marking with an identifying character, the tension on said f ribbon-of transfers being veffected by the weight of the plate 20 resting against the guide| drum 19, the said plate 20 being pivotallyattached at 22a to an arm 22 which is' fulcrumed at 23'to the casing 3.

Referring to Figs. 3a and 9, the shaft 7 has loosely mounted thereon an arm 7, to

v the free end of which is secured a stud 24.

An actuating lever 25 is connected to said stud 24 and the lower end of said lever is pivotally secured to a lever 26 which is in turn mounted on pivot27 of the supporting stud 28, certain movements of said levers 25 and 26 being effected by means lof a spring 29..secured at one end to the lever 26 Iand'at its opposite end to the eye 30 on the wall ofthe casing. 3. An arm 31 is connected at one end to the stud 24 and at its otherend to a stud 33 carried by a bell-crank lever 32. This bell-crank lever 32 is pivotally mounted on the hub 34 of the supportlnggarm 35 which is in turn pivotally vsecured tothe Wall'of the casing 3. The

arm 35 carries'at its free end a pin 36 which through the slot 36a tin c'asing 3 (Figs. 1 and 2). The pin 36 has fastened thereto a link 89 which actuates the register 87. The extreme inner end of the pin 36 the other end of which protrudesthrough the said slot 36*IL is engaged by a stud 42 on the thrust rod 37 during the feeding action of the ticket or transfer actuating means sufli'ciently to cause said lever to reglster a unit on said register 87. The means for effecting the movement of the thrust rod are So designed, proportioned and arranged that the stud 42 carried by said rod will move through an orbit which will permit it to engage the pin 36,`as shown in full lines in Fig. 2a, when the end 38 of -the thrust rod is in feeding engagement with the ticket strip. When there is no ticket feeding, the

frictional drag on the thrust rod will notbe present and this will result in the stud carried thereby passing through a different orbit in which it will freely pass the pin 36 due to the easing ofthe spring 41 at this time, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and therefore no actuation of the register will take place. It is clear therefore that in the operation of the machine, should there be no movement of the ribbon 5 of transfers or tickets the stud 42 will not engage the pin 36 and w-ill thereby prevent the functioning of the total register.

The thrust rod 37 is provided at its upper end with la ticket engaging finger 38 and at itsA central body portion with a pin 39 on which a control lever 40 rests, the position of said thrust rod 37 relatively to the bell crank 32 being maintained by means of a spring 41 attached at one end to said lever 40 and at its opposite end to the body of bell-crankA lever 32. Onel of the functions of the stud 42, which is mounted on the lever 37, is to co-act with the guide rack 43, to move the finger 38 into 'feeding engagement with the transfer ribbon 5, to feed the same through the guide 19 and plates 20 and 21, the guide 19 being slotted at 44 to permit the finger 38 to slide therethrough in order to engage the apertures 45 in the ribbon 5 of tickets or transfers to feed the same toward the zone perforating mechanism.

'Ihe shaft 7 has fixcdly secured thereto a driving' arm 46, the end 47 of which is adapted to engage the Stud 24 as the shaft is revolved. The lower end of a link 48 slidingly engages the stud 24 which is arranged to ride in the slot 49. This arm 48 lis pivoted at 50 on a swinging thrust arm 51 which is pivoted at 52 in casement 3 and guided by means of the plate 53, the outer end of said arm 51 having formed thereon a` stud 54 for engagement with a vertically movable cutter blade 55. The cutter blade 55 slides on the guide plate 56, suitably supported on the bracket 57, which carries the studs 58 having mounted thereon a fiat spring 59 for holding the blade in proper operative engagement with the plate 56.

Super-imposed over the guide plate 21 is an lndicating device which is provided with, vdies between which the tickets or transfers pass forissuance. 61 designates an auxillary casement provided with a sight opening 62, .fastened to the casing 1 or forming part thereof, and hasmounted thereon. or fastened to the casing y1 a bracket 63 in which is effect the perforation of the ticket.

mounted a shaft 64 carrying at' one end thereof a dial 65 in the path of the sight opening 62 having placed on its face numerical zone indications comprising the characters 1-2--3-4-5`6-/7-8-9-0, identical with the zone indications shown on .the face of the punching disc in Fig. 8 of the drawings.

The shaft 64 has secured thereto a bevel gear 66 meshing with a similar gear 67 mounted on the upper end of a shaft 68 which is supported in bearing 69 forming part of or attached to the said casing 1 so that when the handle on the shaft. is manipulated the zone punches are set to the proper position to be operated. The shaft 68 is supported at its lower end in a bracket 70 and a disc '71 is mounted thereon which has in turn mounted therein a series of dies 72 mounted on the lower ends of the studs 73 provided with heads 74 and carrying springs 75 for maintaining them in their inoperative positions. Fixed to the dies 72 are perforating pinsv 76which when operated protrude through the apertures 77 in the dial 78fwhich has designated thereon the perforated numerals 79 comprising the digitSO to 9. inclusive, corresponding to a series of fields. The shaft 68 is supported at its extreme lower end in the bracket 80 and has mounted thereon a sta-r wheel 81 controlled by the stud 82 which is mounted on the arm 83, said arm being held in position by means of the vspring84. the arm 83 being pivotally mounted in the bracket 85 as at 86, and the function thereof is to hold the zone indicator in its different adjusted positions.

For recording the number of transfers or tickets issued I provide a register 87 mounted on a. bracket 88 and actuated by the arm or lever 89 which is in turn actuated by the arm 35 pivotally mounted on the stud 34.

Each time the operating lever 6 is turned through a complete revolution, the stud 91 Icarried by the lever 60 is forcibly broughtdown upon the selected stud 73 on one of the dies 72. thus perforating the ticket or transfer to indicate thereon the zone in which the ticket was issued. Should there be no transfer or strip in the actuating mechanism the 'registering device will not operate since the thrust rod 37 will not then be held in its operative position to cause the registering means to tabulate the desired records. This action will first cause the cam 11 to be moved to such position that the spring 17 will be permitted to quickly trip the` roller down the step 12 on said cam and through the connecting link 16 will rock the lever 60 about its pivotl thereby causing the studv 91.to give the selected die head -74 a hammer blovCv to ontinued movement of the shaft 7 will cause the striker 46 which is then in engagement with the stud 24 carried by the crank 7, to

ticket strip, and the continued movement vof the bell-crank 32 and thrust rod 37 feeds the ticket end of the strip out through the aperture 56a in the plate 56. During theV interval that the above described operations have been taking place the stud 24 has been tra-v- .y

elling'A idly in t-he slot 49 in the lever 48. The cycle of the machine is such that at the instant the ticketI strip is fed the distance between two adjacent feedholes in the same,

'the stud 24 passes dead center with respect to shaft 7 and the spring 29 through links 25 and 26 causes the arm 7 a to travel faster than the shaft 7 on which it is loosely mounted thus rapidly bringing the st-ud 24 to the end of the slot and imparting a quick upward movement of the knife 55 through thelink 48 and lever 51, thereby quickly severing the issued ticket from the strip.

As the thrust arm 37 is feeding the ticket strip forward .the functional drag of the strip causes said arm to rock slightly on its pivot against the holding action of the yielding latch 40. This positions the pin 42 so that as the arm moves forward said pin will engage thestud 36 carried by arm 37, as shown in full lines in Fig. 2a, and through the link 89 will actuate the totalling register 87. Should the operator turn the crank 6 when there are no tickets in position to be fed the pin 42 will esca e the stud 36, as shown in dotted lines in ig. 2a and therefore no actuation ofthe. totalling mechanism will take place.`

`As changes of construction could be made within the scope of my invention itis intended that all matter containedin the above description or shown in `the accompanying drawings shallbe interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: y

1. In a device of the class described. adapted to mark a continuous ticket strip` a rotary dial having zone indicating characters perforated therein. a zone recorder includdial having zone indicating characters perforated therein, a zone recorder including a rotary head carrying a plurality of pins grouped to form characters correspondingv to the ones marked by perforations in said .rotary dial, means for moving said dial and said rotary head synchronously so as to move a group of pins on said head corresponding to a selected character into position to perforate said ticket strip, means for guiding said ticket strip into position y to be perforated by said recorder, means las `for feeding said ticket strip and a knife operatively connected With said feeding vmeans and arranged t0 sever a determined portion from said strip after said portion has been perforated by said zone recorder.

3. In a device p of the class described, adapted to mark a continuous ticket strip, a zone recorder including a rotary head carrying a plurality of'perforating pins grouped to form different identifying characters, means for moving said head to bring a selected group of pins into position to perforate said ticket strip, means for guidingthe ticket strip into position to be perforated by said recorder, means for feeding said ticket strip, actuating mechanism for driving said feeding means, and means operatively connected with said actuating mechanism for imparting a bloW to the selected group of perforating pins to impress arecord on said ticket strip.

4. In a device of the class described, adapted to mark a continuous ticket strip` Y a zone recorder .including a rotary head carrying a plurality o-f perforating pins grouped to form dii'erent'identifying charvacters, means for moving said head to bring a selected group of pins into position to perforate said ticket strip, means for guiding the ticket strip into position to be perforated by said recorder, means for feeding said ticket strip, actuating mechanism for driving said feeding means, and means operatively connected `With said actuating mechanism for imparting a blo-W to the seperforate said ticket strip, means for' guiding the ticket strip into position to be perforated by vsaid recorder, means for feeding said ticket strip, actuating mechanism for driving saidifeeding means, a knife operatively associated With said actuatingmechanism for severing a portion from said ticket strip and a total register arranged only to be actu-ated each time a portion of saidV perforate said ticket strip, means for holding said head in its different adjusted p ositions, means for guiding the ticket strip lso into position to be marked bysaid recorder,

means for feeding said ticket strip, actuating means for moving said feeding means and means associated with said actuating means for effecting the perforatinfr movement of the selected group of pins before the feeding movement of the ticket strip takes place, a total register arranged to only be actuated by said feeding means when the latter is in engagement with the ticket strip.

l 7. n an apparatus of the class described, adapted to mark a ticket strip, a rotary head carrying afplurality of groups of pins for perforating .different characters in a ticket strip, means for feeding said strip, means for selectively bringing the different groups o f pins into position to perforate the ticket, feeding devices for moving the ticket strip including a thrust rod havin a feeding finger for engagement With the ticket strip, a total register having actuating devices arranged for co-action With said feeding mechanism and a stud carried by said thrust rod Which moves in a path which causes it to engage the actuating devices for the register only when said feeding finger is in engagement with the ticket strip.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, adapted to mark a ticket strip, a zone recorder carrying means for impressing different characters on said ticket strip, means for feeding the ticket strip, a knife for severing determined portions of said stri after the feeding means have moved v sai strip a determined distance, an operating shaft, means operatively associated With :saidshaft for driving said feeding mecha- Y nism, and spring actuated means. controlled by the rotation of said shaft for effecting an accelerated cutting movement of said knife after the ticket strip has been fed.

9. In anapparatus of the class described adapted to mark a ticket strip, a zone. recordng mechanism having impressing devices whereby different characters correspending to different zones can be impressed on said ticket strip, means for guiding said strip into position to be marked by a selected `total re ister and means for actuating the same W ich is only operative when said feeding means is in engagement with the ticket strip.

10. In an apparatus of the class described adapted to mark a ticket strip, a zone recording mechanism having impressing devices wheneby different characters corresponding to different zones can be impressed strip into position to be marked by a selected character on said recorder, feedmg mechanism for moving said strip, comprising a thrust rod having a ticket strip engaglng finger, an oscillating member to which said thrust rod is pivotally Secured, a latch for yieldingly holding said thrust rod in different positions, means for guiding said feeding finger Ainto engagement with saidV strip upon the initial movement of said oscillating member, an operating shaft, a crank arm loosely mounted thereon and connected bya link with said oscillating member and a fixed arm on said operating shaft transmitting motion to said crank arm, a spring actuated toggle operatively connected with said crank arm, a knife for severing determined portions from said ticket strip and means actuated by said toggle for moving said knife after" said ticket strip has been moved by said feeding finger.

ll. In a device of the class described adapted to mark a continuous ticket strip, an enclosing housing, a compartment formed in the lower part thereof to hold the con- .tinuous strip of folded tickets, means for directing the travelof said ticket strip, a rotatable head located above said guiding means carrying a plurality of groups of pins arranged in the form of characters correspondingto different zones carried by said head, means for moving said head to selectively bring different groups of said pins into position to perforate said ticket strip, means located below said rotar head for feeding said ticket strip, a knife or severing a portion of said strip determined by the stroke of said feeding means, and means for moving said knife immediately," after said feeding means have moved the hticket strip forward, and total registering means arranged toV be actuated only when said feeding means is in operative engagement with the ticket strip.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand at the city, county and State of New York, this 5th day of December, 1919.

REUBEN H. HELsEL.

Witness:

JOHN D. Kms. 

